Your One-Stop Chinese Matcha Partner
We control the source, develop the product and support your launch — one partner for private-label brands, café and beverage groups, and the importers and distributors who supply them.
Match the right tea to latte, bakery or whisking by color, flavor, dosage and cost.
Reference ranges - exact specification, price and documents confirmed per selected lot.
Why Partner With SilkRoad Leaf
Most overseas brands do not fail because the tea is bad. They stall because no single partner controls supply, development and launch at once. We do — source, development and private label, handled end to end.
You cannot say which garden, harvest or lot your powder came from — so you cannot defend quality or traceability to your own customers.
Our fixSource-controlled supply traced to a named garden and lot, with batch-specific residue and quality documents.
Factories set high MOQs, so a wrong first order ties up cash and shelf space before you know the product sells.
Our fixSample-first testing and small-batch market entry — prove the product in your real format before committing volume.
Ceremonial vs culinary, latte vs baking grade — buy the wrong one and the drink looks dull or tastes flat behind milk.
Our fixApplication testing in your actual drink, food or retail format before purchase, not a generic grade label.
A bag of matcha is not a product. Without format, packaging and a launch path, it sits in the warehouse.
Our fixEnd-to-end launch — we take it from selected tea to a packaged, branded, market-ready product.
Who We Work With
Most overseas matcha buyers fall into one of these three groups. Each opens a different working path, but every project starts with the same thing: source-controlled Chinese matcha tested in your real application.
You want your own branded matcha, sold on your shelf, your site or your channel. We select the tea, shape the format, guide packaging and deliver a small-batch first run you can actually launch.
Explore private-label development 02You run multiple cafés or a central beverage programme and need a matcha that works in your real latte, iced drink and bakery workflow — at a cost per serving that protects your margin.
See the café development path 03You supply independent cafés, local retailers or regional wholesalers. We become your upstream source: consistent lot quality, documented origin and packaging options your customers can sell.
See the importer pathHotels, dining and specialty retail are also served by request, usually after the core matcha product is proven.
Lead With Matcha
We start every project with Chinese matcha because it is the fastest product for a private-label brand or café group to launch and prove. Pick the format that matches your finished product — then we develop it end to end.
Flagship · Source-controlled
Matched to color, flavor, texture, dosage and cost for real use — not a generic grade label. We control the supply at origin and test it in your product before you commit volume.
Application 01 · Café
The entry wedge: a latte-grade matcha tested for color stability, milk compatibility and cost per serving in your real café workflow.
Explore the café path →Application 02 · Bakery
A baking-grade matcha formulated to hold color and flavor through heat, batter and frosting — for pastry, chocolate and frozen formats.
See baking directions →Application 03 · Private Label
Retail tins, pouches and private-label packs with your branding, plus the documents and small-batch runs to launch without a factory.
Explore private label →White tea, jasmine, functional blends and other Chinese teas are available by request — tell us your application and we will advise.
Source-Controlled, Documented
A "one-stop partner" claim is only worth it if the source and the paperwork hold up. These are the standards every matcha lot we ship is measured against.
The source
The supply behind every SilkRoad Leaf matcha candidate — chosen, graded and documented at origin, not pulled from an anonymous catalogue.
Certified organic programs available per lot, matched to the destination market and the buyer's documentation requirement.
Sourcing from facilities operating under ISO 22000 / HACCP-based food-safety management.
COA, EU MRL-aligned multi-residue screening and lot record supplied for the selected candidate.
Traceable to a named garden and lot — not an anonymous "partner factory" catalogue.
Beyond matcha, our wider catalogue — white tea, jasmine, functional blends, oolong and black tea — is available by request.
Choose a Business Setting
Most buyers enter through one of three scenes — a private-label launch, a café or beverage-group programme, or an importer/distributor supply relationship. Each opens a complete development path.
Scene 01 · Private Label
From tea selection and product format to packaging, label information and a practical first production run you can put on a shelf or site.
Scene 02 · Café & Beverage Group
Test hot lattes, iced matcha, straight tea and seasonal drinks for color, tea presence, milk compatibility, dosage, workflow and cost per cup.
Scene 03 · Importer / Distributor
Consistent lot quality, EU/US organic options and packaging formats your café and retail customers can actually sell.
Hotels, dining and specialty retail are also served by request, usually after the core matcha product is proven.
From Idea to First Product
Tell us what you want to make. We help select, test and present the tea, then prepare a small-batch start.
Tell us the market, channel, finished application, expected quantity, packaging and timing.
We recommend suitable teas, testing methods, deliverables and indicative investment.
Compare tea in the actual drink, food, retail or service setting—not only as dry leaf or powder.
Once the product, packaging and terms are agreed, move into a market test and repeat supply.
Alongside our business work, SilkRoad Leaf also prepares personalized Chinese tea gifts for individuals through Atelier — a separate service from the café, retail and private-label supply above. Gift pricing and tiers live on the Atelier page.
Mission & Tea Culture
We build a more valuable route for Chinese tea overseas. Culture explains flavor, brewing, craft and gifting while the product remains central.
Buyer questions
Direct answers, including the ones that cost people money when they get them wrong. If your question is not here, ask it and we will answer in writing.
Ceremonial grade comes from the youngest first-harvest leaves, stone-milled to roughly 5–10 microns, and is meant to be whisked with water and drunk on its own — sweeter, brighter green, more delicate. Culinary grade uses later harvests, has a stronger and more astringent profile, and is formulated to hold flavour and colour against milk, sugar, heat or batter. For a café latte programme, a well-made culinary or latte grade usually outperforms ceremonial, because ceremonial matcha's subtlety disappears behind milk. Buying ceremonial grade for lattes is the most common and most expensive mistake new cafés make.
For culinary and latte applications the gap has largely closed — Chinese producers now use shading, steaming and stone-milling comparable to Japanese practice, at a materially lower landed cost. For high-end ceremonial usucha, Japanese single-cultivar matcha from Uji or Nishio still holds an edge in umami depth and cultivar heritage. The practical answer for most overseas buyers is split sourcing: Chinese matcha for the high-volume drink base where cost per serving decides margin, Japanese matcha for a premium hero SKU where provenance is part of the story.
Expect a commercial invoice and packing list, a certificate of origin, a phytosanitary or health certificate depending on destination, and a pesticide residue test report from an accredited laboratory. The EU applies a large multi-residue screen to tea and enforces maximum residue limits strictly — an EU-scope residue report is the single document that most often blocks a shipment. The UK follows a broadly equivalent regime post-Brexit. The US requires FDA prior notice and FSVP compliance. Ask for a residue report scoped to your destination market before you place the order, not after the container is loaded.
The tea itself is rarely the constraint — packaging is. Printed tins, custom pouches and printed cartons carry their own print-run minimums, and that sets the floor for a private-label order. A workable sequence: buy a small paid sample set, run it in your actual application, commit to a first production run using stock packaging with a branded label, then move to fully custom packaging once reorder velocity is proven. This keeps first-order cash exposure low while still producing a sellable, branded product.
Test in the drink you will actually sell, not in water. Prepare each candidate at your real dose, with your real milk and your real sweetener, at your real serving temperature, and judge four things: colour stability after five minutes, bitterness behind milk, whether it clumps when mixed at speed, and cost per serving at your pour size. A matcha that tastes exceptional whisked with water can look dull and taste flat in an oat latte. Application testing before the purchase order is cheaper than a pallet you cannot sell.
SilkRoad Leaf is operated by KangDe (HK) JianKang Technology Limited. We work with three groups: private-label brands launching their own matcha, café and beverage groups building a matcha programme, and importers or distributors who need a documented upstream source for their café and retail customers. We develop Chinese matcha into products those buyers can actually sell — through paid application testing, packaging guidance and small-batch launch support, rather than sending a generic price list. The emphasis is on making the product work in your real serving format before volume is committed. We control the supply at origin and handle development and launch as one partner.